NOTE THE VENUE CHANGE. Mark your calendar for a special literary event at Shaar Shalom on Sunday, June 8, at 4:00 pm. Ayelet Tsabari, award-winning Israeli-Canadian author, will be reading from and discussing her debut novel, Songs for the Brokenhearted, in person. The book, which has won numerous awards, is a story about a young Yemeni-Israeli woman who learns of her mother’s secret romance in a dramatic journey through lost family stories, revealing the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter. Lynn Bessoudo, Halifax-based Jewish writer and communications specialist, will be joining us and moderating the discussion.

Join the MFA program at King's College University for a mentor reading. Halifax public library, central branch, 7pm.

Join the Glob­al Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Alliance for a con­ver­sa­tion with Manya Wilkin­son and Ayelet Tsabari on being sto­ry­tellers, their jour­neys into the writ­ing world, what inspires them, and how their approach­es to writ­ing dif­fer. The con­ver­sa­tion will dis­cuss their approach­es to writ­ing their books, how they chose these sto­ries to tell, and why telling Jew­ish sto­ries, and these spe­cif­ic Jew­ish sto­ries, is so impor­tant, right now and always. This con­ver­sa­tion will be mod­er­at­ed by Emi­ly Kas­riel, author of Deep Lis­ten­ing: Trans­form your Rela­tion­ships with Fam­i­ly, Friends and Foes. Virtual, 12:00 EST. Free. For more information and for tickets go here: